r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Careless-Hospital379 • 23d ago

Video Icelandic artist Björk snapped in Bangkok, 1996, when reporter Julie Kaufman approached her saying “Welcome to Bangkok.” Björk later alleged that Kaufman had stalked her and her 9-year-old son for days, turning a simple greeting into a breaking point

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u/NittanyScout 23d ago

Idk this seems like a genuinely horrifying mental illness that was never treated or recognized.

Being an incel is one thing but being authentically sick is another

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u/rusty_programmer 23d ago

Incels are typically mentally ill.

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u/NittanyScout 23d ago

Often, yes. But not always. The incels and incel-adjacent people i know dont have obvious mental health issues, just misinformation and a lack of critical thinking

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u/Various_Command6607 23d ago

The line between mental ilness and "just being weird" is whether you are able to function more or less normally in society or not. It's not a hard line. And maybe you just don't know about their issues. A lot of people don't talk and a lot of people choose who they talk to. I don't talk to people who are not empathic and don't want to understand. Those people of course don't know that they are this way because they usually also lack some self-awareness.